Je was me gewoon net voor met posten 
You were just ahead of me answering, that is why our anwers were coliding… 
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True, it’s not that they took the 76 mm turret and thickened the armour (like they did do with the gun shield for it) but the M4A3E2’s turret is clearly designed along very much the same lines — rather than, say, basing it on the T25/T26 turret — which pretty much makes it a thicker version of the 76 mm turret.
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To date here is a list of all the Shermans i have built over the years
T6 Michael Sherman prototype
Early M4 as in Tamiya’s kit
M4 105mm converted from M4A3 105mm
M4 Composite Hull
early M4A1 with M3 suspension
Mid production M4A1
M4A1 76mm
M4A1E8 76mm
Early M4A2 Free French
Sherman III (British M4A2)
M4A2 76mm russian
M4A2 75mm russian
M4A2 USMC
early 56 deg hull M4A3
M4A3 75mm
M4A3 75mm USMC
M4A3 75mm with dozer blade
M4A3 76mm
M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo 75MM
M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo 76MM
M4A3E8 76mm Thunderbolt
M4A3E8
M4A3 105mm
M4A3E8 105mm
M4A3E8 POA_CWS-H5
M4A4
Sherman Firefly
Sherman Prototypes
Late M4 with Pershing turret
M4A2E4 with torsion bar suspension
Post war Shermans
M4A3E4 as in the movie Kelly’s Heroes but not a movie tank
M1 Super Sherman
Early M50 with VVS
M50 long hull M4A4 hull
M50 short hull M4A1 hull
M51 cast hull
M51 welded hull M4A3 hull
Meir IDF’s 1st Sherman
Tamar IDF’s 2nd Sherman
Egyptian Sherman with FL10 turret
Pakistani M4A1E6
Works in progress
M4A1E9
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38 is not bad, but with some 50,000 built you still have another 49,962 to go… 
(My own count is around 20…)
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I had to update my post i forgot the 2 Sherman Jumbos iv built one with a 75mm and the other with a 76mm and a Pakistani M4A1E6
So actual total is 40
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40 and counting…that’s inspiring! I’ve painted one Sherman total.
Looking forward to building my very first one soon for this group build.
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Do you mean a T6 there, or Michael? The latter is a very, very early M4A1, not a T6.
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the T6
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Well, despite I consider myself a Sherman aficionado my build list is much shorter, you’ve been really serious in the business!
Scrolling your list I was attracted by the conversion from M4A3 105 to M4 105; for my Sherman Krupp (being posted here as my second effort for this group) I am doing something similiar because those very first IDF tanks were based on Chrysler M4 105 sourced in Italy in the period 47-48.
Some stayed as 105 mm, other were regunned with 75 mm and six orphans of proper American guns were tentatively armed with German 75 mm borrowed from Artillery units.This the beginnig of the hull job:
And I corrected the angle of the rear plate:
Any tip, suggestion or advise while it’s in progress?
Thanks in advance
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Do you mean that the photo shows the angle after you corrected it, or is the tape the line along which you were going to cut the hull rear? Because the tape looks like it’s at a 90° to the lower edge of the side armour, which is incorrect for a large-hatch M4. Only PSC- and Baldwin-built M4s had a vertical rear plate, but those never made large-hatch hulls.
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The tape was only put in approximate position to show the amount of hull to be cut away.
The final angle is some 12 degrees. I did cut it a couple of days ago and I haven’t made a pic yet.
Fully agree it should not be vertical.
Cheers
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it was a simple conversion i kept the M4A3 upper and lower hull i cut out the engine deck and used the engine deck and the lower rear hull plate and associated parts relating the the M4 and put those on the Tamiya M4A3 hull
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Thought I would make a start …
The bits …
And the transmission section fitted.
Can a Sherman expert confirm this for me, I think I’m right but to hear it from someone who knows will be great …
This plate moulded on the hull…
Am I correct in thinking that the plate would actually be part of the suspension unit ? And you’d only 12 bolt holes in the hull ?
Just want to make sure before I start slicing bits off.
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that is a Sherman from Argentina not Chile
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Perfect… Thanks Peter.
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You are correct indeed. If you look at this picture I posted earlier:
… that plate moulded onto the kit hull is actually the flanges with the bolt holes on the bogie.
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Thanks Jakko… I did look at your pic you posted, and just wanted to make sure there was not some sort of raised plate or spacer under that flange area …your image also nicely showed the 2 top mounting bolt holes as well which I noticed on Peter’s images above.
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Jakko, how do you get the original text to show up when you reply to someone’s post? (Not yet that familiar with this forum.)
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